Reminiscence of one of the greatest compliments that I was ever paid in my life...

...during when I was working at the one resthome that I used to work at:

Several times when we were doing our daily jobs and I -- like many other coworkers -- was simply trying to do my best to take care of residents, my one (Tibetan) coworker with an inappropriate sense of humor said out of nowhere, "Little Buddha," and told other people stuff like, "He is a little Buddha," and she did this is in a playful but not unserious way.

This honestly happened like 2-3 times, and I think that there was something about the purity of my behavior that called out that response in her, although I'm not sure why she necessarily said that about me in particular versus other wonderful people like my one (skeptical) (Mexican) coworker... Perhaps she did sometimes with them, too, and I simply never saw it.

The (Tibetans) there did take Buddhism very seriously, it seemed, although it didn't come up all that often.

Like, once death came up as a subject among people talking, and one of them was like, "Of course, everyone dies."

Another time, too, a resident who was in a concentration camp was discussing her experience with my one (male) (Tibetan) coworker, and he was like, "Yes, [her first name], everyone suffers" and he then began to Buddhist-splain to her, which made me wince a little bit, since somehow her suffering seemed like categorically different suffering and his response was a little bit too rote.